pspp-0.8.2 released [stable]

From:

Ben Pfaff

Subject:

pspp-0.8.2 released [stable]

Date:

Mon, 13 Jan 2014 21:56:18 -0800

User-agent:

Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux)

I'm very pleased to announce the release of a new version of GNU PSPP.
PSPP is a program for statistical analysis of sampled data. It is a
free replacement for the proprietary program SPSS.
Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature[*]:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/pspp/pspp-0.8.2.tar.gzftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/pspp/pspp-0.8.2.tar.gz.sig
Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html
[*] Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the
.sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file
and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this:
gpg --verify pspp-0.8.2.tar.gz.sig
If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
then run this command to import it:
gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys C6648E90
and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.
This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
Autoconf 2.69
Automake 1.11.6
Gnulib v0.0-7913-g5191133
Changes from 0.8.1 to 0.8.2:
* Charts are now rendered with colours from the Tango palette instead
of fully saturated primaries.
* Support for new system file variants:
- PSPP can now read and write ZCOMPRESSED system files, which
compress data much more effectively than older "compressed"
files. (The older format is still supported.)
- PSPP can now decrypt encrypted system files, using the new
pspp-convert utility. The encrypted system file format is
unacceptably insecure, so to discourage its use PSPP and PSPPIRE
do not directly read or write this format.
* Missing values for long string variables are now read from and
written to system files in an SPSS-compatible fashion.
(Earlier versions of PSPP that supported missing values for long
string variables wrote them to system files in an SPSS-incompatible
way. To fix the problem, read the system file with this version of
PSPP and then save a new copy of it.)
* pspp-convert, a new standalone utility for converting SPSS system
and portable files to other formats, is now included. The initial
version supports comma-separated value files as output format.
pspp-convert can also decrypt encrypted system files.
* Build changes:
- zlib is now a required dependency. (Previously it was optional.)
Please send PSPP bug reports to address@hidden